Category: Article
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Categories of Creativity
I called this post categories of creativity, because it’s not categories of innovation, which don’t really exist. Assessing a creative idea, an idea that is intentionally novel, as innovative is a subjective judgement, usually over a long period of time, about the value of that idea.(1) Innovation is not something…
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Doing great work is not enough unless you connect it with your stakeholders
Good article and simple model on managing the power structure around your project. https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-build-a-power-map-for-your-project
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A Letter from Bangladesh
Prepared by Sajjad Zohir, Executive Director of the Economic Research Group in Bangladesh.
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The Dangers of Systems Illiteracy
This recent article makes a good point that we need to be reminded that our global activity and the related science and technology is all connected. In the early days of deep thinking, most thinkers were simply called “philosophers” or some variation of the term. Today, complex thought has been…
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An Historic Look at the Stock Market
The latest news in the stock market is tough to swallow, but hardly new to most folks who follow such things. I wanted to get a better historical perspective, so I pulled up a table of the S&P 500 Index, a highly watched measure of a diverse range of stocks,…
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Baldrige for Project Managers
Think the Baldrige Excellence Framework only applies to organizations? Think again. We’re not all CEOs, but all project or team leaders can benefit from the wisdom of the framework.
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Fusion, fission, or something else?
Great discussion of transformative organizational strategies. https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Columns/The-Future-of-the-Future/Fusion-fission-or-something-else-151619.aspx
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Two Creative Problem Solving Pathways
McKinsey recently published this article about a 7-step process for structured, creative problem solving. It’s a classic “problem-backward” strategy. It’s good, but it’s NOT the only strategy. The McKinsey strategy is not unlike the “Jobs to be Done” strategy (popularized by Christensen, Ulwick, and the “design thinking” others) where a…
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Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy
Makes the right points that strategy is hard, but that simple structures (open debate and strategy maps) can help bring clarity, logic, and testability to any strategic concept. This is not unlike the structural processes for creative ideation (see Systematic Inventive Thinking). In both cases, folks tend to think these…
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Does Chester Need Its Own Business & Career Resource Center?
I’m interested in your thoughts on building a business & career resource center in Chester that helps the community by offering needed services affordably while providing a workforce development opportunity for challenged workers.
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